Nearly half of the legal professionals surveyed by digital insurance company Embroker are looking to enhance their coverage, compared to just 14% the previous year.

       

       

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"The judicial role is rarely more essential than in the context of the Great Writ," counsel for Maryland federal judges wrote in a motion defending the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland's standing order that prevents hasty deportations of local detainees who file habeas petitions.

       

The ruling delved into a novel issue of who can receive restitution from a defendant that defrauded hundreds of certified classes.

       

The judges considering whether or not to unseal grand jury testimony in two matters relating to Jeffrey Epstein ordered the Department of Justice to file memorandums of law in support of their motion. Manhattan Federal judges Richard Berman and Paul Engelmayer said they cannot rule "without additional submissions.

       

"Uber's accusations rely on rhetoric, not reality," Downtown LA Law Group claimed. "The company never tried a single case it now claims was fraudulent. Every referenced case was reviewed, defended and settled by Uber and its legal counsel—often after months of litigation and discovery. If Uber truly believed these claims were meritless, it had every opportunity to take them to trial. It chose not to."

       

Black advanced through the ranks of the Dade County Public Defender's Office in 1970s to become one of the best-known defense attorneys in the nation.

       

Seward & Kissel and Squire Patton Boggs are some of the latest law firms to gain partners from McDermott and Schulte ahead of the firms' Aug. 1 merger date.

       

Nell Jessup Newton, University of Notre Dame professor emerita, has been named interim provost of Wake Forest University, succeeding Michele Gillespie, who is stepping down after three years in the role.

       

“We think that the CHOICE Act is going to be ripe for litigation for some time, said Justin Beyer, a partner at Saul Ewing.

       

On X, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi posted that Grace had been removed, and that Habba "has been doing a great job in making NJ safe again. Nonetheless, politically minded judges refused to allow her to continue in her position, replacing Alina with the First Assistant."

       

The U.S. Supreme Court has handed the White House a string of major victories in President Donald Trump's crackdown on immigration and the federal workforce in recent months. The court's liberal minority have not always agreed on how to respond.

       

“The purpose of this administrative stay is to give the court sufficient opportunity to consider the motion for a stay pending appeal and should not be construed in any way as a ruling on the merits of that motion, the appellate court stated.

       

A Florida financier is seeking a receivership in South Dakota federal court after investing $4 million in a cryptocurrency hedge fund that later collapsed—an investment he says was arranged by his attorney, who also served as the fund's general counsel.

       

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Baker McKenzie North America trade-secrets practice chair Bradford Newman joins the firm to lead the Northern California outpost.

       

Baker McKenzie North America trade secret practice chair Bradford Newman joins the firm to lead the Northern California outpost.

       

Profit grew in all of the firm's core markets but notably the biggest increases were seen in the U.S. and Asia.

       

Seven of the nine firms that made deals with the Trump administration also said they wouldn't let the administration dictate their pro bono work, although most firms have kept quiet about what types of work they believe will satisfy the administration.